Can ebay/paypal track personal messages?

[kizmatica]

Hi(adding to my growing list of questions today, sorry)

Can ebay/paypal track personal messages you send to ebay/paypal users via ebay?

My ebay address is not my real address, so when you have the option to attach a message to a seller, and I say for example "can you send the item to this address" (my real/limited address) can ebay track this and then link my account?

[GrannyT]

Why would you meed to do that? When you buy Ebay send you the email address of the seller. Send as little as possible through their system.

[kizmatica]

Ok thanks a lot, didn't realise that

[patojen]

I dont think even e bay can track these messages they dont usually check messages in case of normal transactions

[BiN4RY]

They do. eBay can easily "invade" your inbox/outbox

[TGMT²]

Originally Posted by kizmatica

Can ebay/paypal track personal messages you send to ebay/paypal users via ebay?

One Million, One Hundred and Forty Percent.... Yes!

I had a problem with a buyer a few months ago and needed to talk to a eBay rep, and she had no problem pulling up and reading to me the back and forth emails.

[GrannyT]

Erm - you can only have 100%

[ShadyOne]

Haha.."ANNNDD Forty Percent".

Yep. eBay snoop through messages, so never give out your real (suspended) info on there at all. Should be obvious but people do it all the time.

[jeffweico]

I actually kind of like this...

I mean, you know that eBay can always refer back to it. Do they actively monitor it? Doubtful.

But it helped me in one instance. A buyer was unhappy with her item. It weighed about 7 ounces. I agreed to reimburse her for first class return shipping. Instead, she called UPS to have a pcikup scheduled and gave me a bill for $9. She filed a complaint with eBay when I refused to give her more than the $3.20 it should have cost to mail First Class with delivery confirmation.

The eBay rep looked at our back and forth and could clearly see that I never said I would reimburse her for ANY type of shipping. I would never agree to something that open-ended. I won that one.

[eVille]

if you delete all incoming and sent emails in your ebay messages.. will that cover my butt if I am concerned about having completed a few transactions outside of ebay but communicated via ebay? I am not suspended or anything yet.. just as a precaution.?

[xxxhustlerxxx]

this thread is over 6 months old. you cannot delete your messages as they just go into the 'deleted messages folder' for 12 months.

[GreenBean]

Thought they changed it to 6 months?